The Washington critic., 1887-09-06
GENERAL NEWS MOVES.

The annual session Of the Kriegerbund OF
North America was opened In Chicago yes
terday.
The winning horses at shecpshead Bay
yesterday were Cyclops, Rnceland, Kings
ton, Joe Cotton, Lelax and Santa Rita.
In the races at Niagara Falls yesterday
Grey Cloud won the third race, mile and
seventy yards, in l:47, breaking the record.
A razor was found yesterday In the cell
occupied by A. X. Parsons, the convicted
Chicago Anarchist. 1t was taken away
from him.
Alexander Hamilton Miller, the Oldest
and wealthlest lawyer In Pittsburg, Pa, died
Sunday. lie left an estate estimated at $a,-
0OO,0 In value.
President Cleveland has written letter
to the llibornian Society OF Philadelphia, &c
ccpting an invitation to be present at their
quarterly dinner on September IL.
j. Frank Bennett, who was recently
elected township assessor at Eatontown, N.
j., died yesterday from the effects OF
dose OF Paris green, taken with suicidal In
tent
NJ. L. Reed, alias James Merwin, agent of
the National Express Company OF Glenn's
Falls, N. y, was arrested Friday at Hen
derson, N. G., charged with the theft OF
~ eco from the company.
Philip Schembs, baker, OF Louisville,
KY, committed suicide yesterday In the
county jail by cutting his throat with tin
bucket, III which some soup had been sent
him. lie had been on q spree.
Judge Valiant of the st. Louis Circuit
Court, yesterday, reversed the decision of
Judge NOonan Of the Court of Criminal
Correction In regard to the Sunday closing
OF saloons, and virtually ordered them to
close next Sunday.
The Wisconsin Leather Company OF MIL
waukee, one Of the Oldest houses In that
city, confessed Judgment yesterday on four
notes amounting to over $4,000. The com
pany was declared insolsent by the Judge
| Of the Circuit Court.
Editors Krack winter, Cook and Parks of
the Milwaukee LnbOr Rcrie,U. were arrested
Saturday on charge OF criminal libel pre-
| ferred by Alderman Garrett Duncan, whom
| the paper termed "a Doodle alderman and
"a Buddensleck builder"
The coke syndicate met In Pittsburg yes.
| tetday and decided upon a scale of wages
which they will present to the operatives al
| conference to-day. The scale will make
wages uniform throughout the region, but
| no advance will be conceded.
| The Brady bill, which was intended tc
enable farmers to plead want of consdera.
lion on notes given for fertilizers, and
which had passed the House, was defeated
/ In the Georgia Senate yesterday by the de
Gliding vote Of the president OF the Senate
The third annual convention OF the Fed.
Grated Association Of Miners and Mine La.
borers OF the United States and Territorles
will be held in Ind Annapolis to-day. ln.
diana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and other States will be repre-
sented.
A freight and a gravel train on the Read.
ing Railroad collided In Williamsport, Pa,
yesterday, both engines and large number
OF cars being badly wrecked. The loss will
not be less than 100000. Michael Joyce OF
Mahonoy Plane, o brakeman on the gravel
train, was Killed.
Acceptances of the invitation sent out by
the Constitutional Centennial Commission
to be present at the celebration, September
10 to II instant, have been received from
Biehop IL. Q. Potter OF New York and
Frederick Douglass OF Washington, both OF
whom write patriotic letters.
| William Hagg Wolsely Markham, ex pay.
master OF the British man-of-war Espoir,
who was arrested In Kansas City for eu.
bezzlement committed in China, has been
handed over to Inspector Nattbewson OF
the Hong Kong Imperial Police, who has
left with him for Hong Kong.
The fall term of the Illinois Supreme
Court begins at Ottawa to-day. The case OF
the convicted Anarchists is to be decided
and the opinion, 1t Is said, will be filed thli
week. The general impression Is that the
court stands six to one In favor OF Affirm
ing the sentence Of the lower court.
| According 10 advices from Hurley aud
Bessemer, Wis, great excitement has been
caused there by the attachment OF the
Bourne, Iron King, Valley, Blue Jacket and
First National mines, known as the John L
on strike, and demand two months wage
| IN arrears,